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Original poem reprinted online here: "Chez Jane" by Frank O'Hara Originally read: April 12, 2013 More information about the Poet: Frank O'Hara Every time I read Frank O'Hara's work, I marvel on the grand themes and serious discourse in his work.  That's a lie.  Frank O'Hara has a sense of humor and tricks the reader by pivoting meaning of words and phrases without sacrificing "meaning" (the grandiose themes) in a tongue-in-cheek way. But first, the set up.  The poem starts out fancy domesticity with "The white chocolate jar full of petals" and the observation of stationary boredom comes at the announcement of time "four o'clocks now and to come." Then suddenly the poem becomes surreal with the introduction of the Tiger -- the description of the tiger is "irritable" and doing a lot of action, but note "without disturbing a hair/ of the flowers' breathless attention, pisses into the pot, right down it...